This kind of good thing really has to be paid for by themselves.

In fact, the military expenditure of the Western Army is solved by itself, and the imperial court no longer pays military pay and food to the Western Army, but it no longer requires their taxes. In short, everything is solved by themselves. At most, Wang Yue provides them with loans when necessary in banks in various places, but they have to repay the loans when due, but the interest is more preferential than others...

Especially in risky investments such as external expansion, there is no additional risk interest, and it will even reduce interest. In fact, it is to encourage them to plunder outward.

Mainly talent trading.

Because of the expansion of coastal fisheries, Wang Yue's demand for talents is increasing. The important income of the Western Army is to recruit talents for him, and they have begun to develop towards the plateau.

This is why interest rates are reduced.

Talent trading is the most important thing, and you don’t expect to make money with a loan.

However, because they have completely delegated power, all the families have lived a good life...

Although they cry poor.

For example, under the banner of supporting the emperor, he coaxed the poor Zhao Huan and the court. In order for the Western Army Group to advance and retreat with them, the latter often squeezed out some money from their teeth to give them. After all, this is a force that can truly compete with Wang Yue. In the eyes of those naive civil officials, Wang Yue had not usurped the throne, that is, there were also loyal and righteous people from the Song Dynasty, such as the Western Army.

Even these bastards sometimes even cheat those people in the south.

The latter is even better to cheat.

These guys secretly scolded Wang Yue at their messenger, and the Sichuan officials would happily pay for it, and then fantasize that when Wang Yue attacked Sichuan, these guys would raise the banner of rebellion.

But in fact none of these guys are really poor.

Yao Gu, it goes without saying that he has a real rich place. Han Shizhong relies mainly on talent trade on Fuyan Road and also sells oil, which is his important source of wealth. Because Quduan and Zhongwu are the main barrier to security in Guanzhong, Yao Gu and the people of Guanzhong have to support them. The Xinxingzong brothers mainly rely on trade on the Silk Road. Whether they are in the end, they are the main trading channels, and there are also the main horse farms in Huangzhong and the trade in Tubo, while Guo Hao controls trade with Sichuan.

Moreover, the Northwest is not self-sufficient.

This era has not reached the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the key is that the water conservancy facilities in Guanzhong have not collapsed.

Especially Fengli Canal.

This irrigation system can irrigate 35,000 hectares at this time.

Three million and five million acres.

A mu of millet planted with water-watered land can produce two stones at a yield of one acre of irrigated land. This flourishing canal alone can support one million adult men.

But by the Ming Dynasty, it would only irrigate thousands of hectares at most.

The decline of Guanzhong was due to the collapse of these irrigation systems, the political center moved eastward, the attention to Guanzhong was weakened, and the investment in water conservancy maintenance also weakened. Years of silt and sand accumulation, and most importantly, the destruction of war. Especially the nomadic northwest under the rule of the Mongols, my great Yuan Dynasty took Jingzhao Prefecture as the core, and added Fengyuan Road, which included a circle of five states including Huazhou, Yaozhou, Qianzhou, Shangzhou, etc., and all had only 30,000 households, but the Northern Song Dynasty had only 100,000 households.

There are 230,000 households in Jingzhao Mansion!

In the end, Guanzhong, which once flourished, became a place of poverty.

But it hasn't been there yet.

Because it was a combat base in Xixia, the Song Dynasty attached great importance to the maintenance of Guanzhong water conservancy facilities, and after the warlordization was transformed, they paid more attention to it. After all, they were in charge of themselves.

As a Chang'an native, Yao Gu, as a large landlord in the Chang'an area, made great efforts to maintain these water conservancy facilities, and even repaid loans to repair a lot of new ones. In short, in this era, Guanzhong and Shanxi grain were completely self-sufficient. Moreover, they also had a shared ATM, namely the Yanchi. The huge salt pond in Hedong provided them with a steady stream of funds. And they can only say that they are limited warlord separatist, after all, it only took a few years to delegate power to them.

Yao Gu is indeed unable to control the arrogant soldiers and the powerful generals, but after all, he has the Shangfang sword and Wang Yue's support behind it.

The arrogant soldiers and generals do like to do whatever they want, but they still have to eat the grain from Guanzhong after all.

It has not reached the point where the order collapses.

With Wang Yue pressing over his head, they would not be able to reach the real collapse of order.

In short, at this time, all the Northwest companies were strong enough and were fully capable of jointly supporting Li Xiaozhong's Western Expedition. When the Western Expedition was successful, they would support him even more. At that time, Li Xiaozhong probably would have no problem with self-sufficiency...

There is nothing more than a shortage of food there.

However, it is not very short. It can be developed into the most important Han settlement area outside Yumen Pass. It is definitely suitable for farming. It cannot be compared with the modern Dunhuang area with Dunhuang at that time. The Crescent Spring at this time is estimated to be more than 200 meters long and five meters deep, rather than the modern artificial lake that requires artificial water replenishment. It is basically enough for three thousand cavalry to go there. The so-called Gua King descended to Xia and only a thousand cavalry could be a thousand cavalry, and the logistics capabilities of Xixia also determined that they could not make a large-scale expedition there.

If Li Xiaozhong could really capture the three states of Guashasu, it would really be a reconstruction of the Guiyi Army.

As for Liu Xi, the other wars that Wang Yue had to deal with were the northern ones, but the situation in Jinzhou and Xuanda Wars did not change. The only change was that Lou Shi once again captured Bei'anzhou, and Xiao Gan also fled to his Tiewa Wulong Hall again. Then Lou Shi attacked Gubeikou, but was stubbornly blocked by the defenders. At the same time, Xiao Gan's Xi army attacked again, and then the Changsheng army launched a large-scale counterattack. Lou Shi had to retreat and abandon Bei'anzhou he had previously captured.

In fact, Xiao Gan threw it to him on purpose.

His and his goddaughter's plan was to deliberately throw Bei'anzhou to him and then let him attack the solid fortress at Gubeikou. At that time, Xiao Gan attacked him on the flanks, and he could not hold on and had to withdraw his troops. When he retreated, the main force of the Changsheng Army would give him a heavy blow.

In the end, Lou Shi suffered a crushing defeat.

He suffered more than five thousand losses in this series of battles.

However, he also restrained Xiao Gan and Changsheng's army, making it impossible for the latter to reinforce the Liaoxi Corridor. While attacking Jinzhou on the front, Nianhan also sent silver techniques to bypass Jinzhou and march southward.

The main thing is to grab food.

Anyway, Han Qingmin gave up Jinzhou City and retreated to the Yijun Mountain City. He could have bypassed it, but Chizhanhui was not a fool. He also gave up all cities in western Liaoning, strengthened the walls and cleared the fields, and withdrew the population to Laizhou City, and then the main cavalry force retreated to Taohua Island. It was Wang Yue's private territory, and it was also a logistics base in this area. Not only were the food transported to the south and the canned fishing food accumulated there, but there were also a solid fortress. At this time, the sea was frozen and you could also step on the sea ice to climb directly to the land.

Silver Technique can attack Laizhou, and the cavalry over there will attack the rear.

The latter needs to cross two hundred miles of unmanned land from Jinzhou, then attack the sturdy Laizhou City, and also deal with the harassment of the cavalry landing behind it.

Attacking Taohua Island is a good choice.

But they had to cross the ice surface for more than ten miles, and there was no need to think about scattering machines, just riding horses to fight with hand-to-hand combat. But even if they were elite Jurchens, they had crossed over ten miles of sea ice that looked like Martian landforms, and using bows and arrows to hit other people's fortresses and firearms, it was obviously too exaggerated. The island was stationed on the island with a brigade of ever-winning army, and there were 5,000 Liao cavalrymen. In fact, most of them were Jurchens. Chi Zhanhui himself was a Jurchen, a Chinese Jurchen, and they were not the Ming military cannon fodders abandoned by Yuandudu.

In short, there is still nothing to do with the Silver Technique...

These two people were originally generals of the same level. Chi Zhanhui was originally a general of the same level as Yin Shuke in the Jin Kingdom in history.

This war has really become a total war outside the Great Wall.

Even Ma Kuo's Ming army had fought with Olibu many times during this period.

However, the latter itself is a restraining nature, preventing the Ming army from reinforcing Jinzhou. Therefore, the battle situation between the two sides was not very fierce, just that the Jurchen army crossed the Hunhe River to attack, but Ma Kuo directly strengthened the wall and cleared the field, and all the militia retreated into Liaoyang City, leaving nothing outside the small cities. Olibu was unable to attack Liaoyang, so he failed to attack Shenyang. Instead, the Jurchen small cavalry who passed through the mountainous areas west from Kaizhou often fought small-scale wars with militias in the southern part of Liao.

Both sides win and lose.

Anyway, the Jurchens on the East Road could not threaten the Ming Dynasty at all, they just entangled each other. In fact, Ma Kuo often sent cavalry to attack the Jurchen tribes in the mountains.

"The king is really..."

Liu Xi smiled and thought about it...

"The king is really wise. This way, we can almost rest assured that the Song Dynasty can rest assured that the outside world will be beaten to death, and we will sit firmly in the back."

He continued.

It is obvious that these smart people have already understood Wang Yue’s strategy very well.

This guy always said that he was as close as brothers to those messy nations, and even personally became kings of the Ming Dynasty, but in fact he used these people as cannon fodder. Just like those Tuoba Tao shouted back then, they were not from my own country. Even if you kill, it would be a good thing for me. The Jurchens killed all the Xi people, and the Song Dynasty took over the vast mountainous area north of Yanshan Mountain. The Jurchens killed all the Khitans, the Song Dynasty took over western Liaoning and even Linhuang, the Jurchens killed all the Bohai Sea, and the Song Dynasty just restored the Han and Tang dynasties' rule over Liaodong.

It's really too cunning!

"Don't talk nonsense, I am sincere to brothers of all ethnic groups. Look at my family, even Jurchen women, I really want to help them."

Wang Yue said.

"Well, that's why the lower-ranking officials judge a gentleman's ambition by the heart of a villain."

Liu Xi said perfunctorily.

"But they really need rescue. Hurry up and end the Supreme Emperor's judgment. I still have to save these brothers of all ethnic groups!"

Wang Yue said.

"The Supreme Emperor once ruled the world after all. Since he had been arrested, how to deal with it is nothing more than a sentence. Why should he be humiliated by the minority of the public trial?"

Liu Xi said.

"If the trial is not made public, what will I do?"

Wang Yue answered very simply.
Chapter completed!